before and after Tsunami pics..... unbelievable

[trekbiker]

not sure if this weblink has previously been posted. I've seen many of the videos taken by tourists but they dont show the incredible scale of destruction like these pics. Probably because no one with a video camera could have survived in many of these areas. I think some of these may be satellite shots. Some seem to show the outflow of the sea before the actual waves struck. I cant imagine the size of these waves... much larger and more destructive than what I've seen in the videos..

http://homepage.mac.com/demark/tsunami/2.html

[LynzM]

1. Really unbelievable, aren't they?

I cannot even begin to imagine what it's like to be there right now, and try to put a life back together in that environment. My heart goes out to everyone that was hit by this...

[Squatch]

2. My only hope from this tragedy is that politics does not

get in the way of in-depth scientific study of the event and ensuing disaster for the purpose of mitigating similar results in the future.

This is a great opportunity for scientists, engineers, disaster managers, etc. to study what happened and employing ways of reducing damage to life and property in the future.

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[Squatch]

4. Diego Garcia

bathymetry, not human control, prevented damage to that island.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. thank you...

i once diverted a wave in a bathtub...

theProdigal

[Dookus]

7. I think you misunderstood....

the island wasn't hit because it wasn't in the path of the wave, not because of some secret Tsunami-deflector shield.

[whistle]

8. Thanks for the name, here is the MSNBC report on that story....

<snip>

Tsunami spares U.S. base in Diego Garcia
Geography, planning minimized damage

<link> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6786984/

According to the article Diego Garcia was smack in the path of the Tsunami right along side of the hard-hit Maldives.

[Donkeyboy75]

10. Yep. It escaped damage because of some lucky geography and

planning. At least, that's what the MSM says. But we all know it was saved due to Captain Chemtrail and his brigade of alien geniuses.

[whistle]

13. Exactly, hehehehe!

...my question is this. If the tsunami was started by an earthquake induced underwater landslide in Indonesia which radiated outword due to a huge displacement of water say 1000 meters below the surface, then why were so many other areas affected? My understanding of phsyics would suggest that the water surge would remain trapped in the deep water and even follow that deep water troughs. At leats the muldave Islands would be spared because it is surrounded by the same trench that supposedly spared Diego Garcia.

Diego Garcia is southernmost island in the Chagos Archipelago and sits about 1,000 miles south of India and roughly 2,000 miles from the earthquake’s epicenter. Diego Garcia is a horseshoe-shaped island about 39 miles long, surrounded by coral reefs on all sides. Its highest point is only 22 feet above sea level.

However, officials in Somalia, whose coast is nearly 3,000 from the earthquake’s center, reported more than 100 deaths in coastal areas as a result of tidal waves.

About 1,700 U.S. Naval and Air Force personnel are stationed on Diego Garcia Island. The facility was used to support and launch strikes against Iraq in the first Gulf War, and was used for strikes against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan, and again in 2003 for strikes in Iraq. The Navy has eight ships active in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Officials claim none of their ships had any damage from the tsunami disaster.


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[Strelnikov_]

17. The Island (Diego) Rises Steeply From The Ocean Floor

which allowed some relief for the pressure wave.

Male, capital of the Maldives, experienced some surge, but not nearly the amount experienced along coastline a comparable distance from the epicenter.

"A tropical footprint-shaped island just 7 degrees south of the equator, Diego Garcia is heavily vegetated. The island covers 6,720 acres in area with a maximum height of 22 feet and an average elevation of four feet above sea level. The shoreline is about 40 miles long and the island encloses a lagoon 6.5 miles wide and 13 miles long. "

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/diego-garcia-imagery-3.htm

[arwalden]

11. I Wonder Why *MSM* Didn't Report This...

Maybe they did it with "laser" beams.

[Donkeyboy75]

15. The MSM did report it, Allen.

But the super secret memory death rays (TM) the military sent down erased our memories after reading it. Only, I escaped the beams. I have a super special hexagonal water helmet that repels all beams (I coat it with orgone just to make sure it works properly).

[illflem]

6. Much of the agricultural land is gone for a long time

due to excess salt.

[Bouncy Ball]

9. Sets 12,13, and 14 REALLY blew me away

because you can see that the water actually stripped every bit of VEGETATION from the land, as well.

Dear God. Those poor souls.

[achtung_circus]

12. Lots more comparative Satellite photos here:

<http://www.globalsecurity.org>

[whistle]

14. I tried to locate this story at the link provided, but it appears...

...to have been moved, so I'm posting the whole article:

<snip>

Cartographers Redrawing Maps After Tsunami

The plate moved so much, that areas that had a depth of 4000ft are now registering little more than 100 ft. My God no wonder they had a Tsunami.

Cartographers Redrawing Maps After Tsunami
Wed Jan 5, 4:51 PM ET U.S. Government - AP

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?


By KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Water depths in parts of the Straits of Malacca, one of the world´s busiest shipping channels off the coast of Sumatra, reached about 4,000 feet before last month´s tsunami. Now, reports are coming in of just 100 feet — too dangerous for shipping, if proved true.

A U.S. spy imagery agency is working around the clock to gather information, warn mariners and begin the time-consuming task of recharting altered coastlines and ports throughout the region.

Officials at the Bethesda, Md.-based National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency say the efforts will take international cooperation over months, if not years.

Thousands of navigational aides, such as buoys held in place by mushroom-shaped anchors, were carried off to new locations by 50-foot to 100-foot waves. Old shipwrecks marked on charts have been relocated, joined by new wrecks that will have to be salvaged, moved or charted.

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[whistle]

16. More understanding of what triggered the tsunami on 12/26/04...

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The big bang that triggered a tragedy
January 1, 2005

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The underwater landscape determined what was destroyed or spared, writes Richard Macey.

The ground beneath our feet may look stable enough. We rely on firm earth to support our homes and office towers.

But the land is in constant motion. Some 200 million years ago the continents of Australia, Africa, South America, Antarctica and the subcontinent of India did not exist. In their place was one big land mass scientists have dubbed Gondwanaland. Then the supercontinent started to break apart.

The continents ride about the world on tectonic plates, much as department store shoppers travel on escalators. Where the plates - powered by thermal energy from inside the Earth - collide, the forces of nature can be set loose with devastating results.

The plate on which Australia, and much of the Indian Ocean, rides has been travelling north at seven centimetres a year for tens of millions of years. Far below Indonesia it is colliding with, and being forced under, one carrying the Eurasian land mass.

The two plates lock tightly together below Sumatra. As the Australian and neighbouring Indian plates push down, they drag the Eurasian plate down with them.

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http://www.smh.com.au/news/Asia-Tsunami/The-big-bang-that-triggered-a-tragedy/2004/12/31/1104344986724.html?from=moreStories&oneclick=true

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[Lex]

18. Thanks for posting that link.

Amazing photos. The water just swept everything away. Terrible.